Kickflash finally available in the US

[amiga2000]

I did not know the kickflash was even available... Is this the one that is/was being released by Individual Computers? On their website, it had said that they would not release it until new kickstart ROM's were released.

The picture looks like this is a zorro card. Individual Computers description seemed like it would fit into the ROM socket, and allow the original Kickstart to be fitted on top of that.

Where can I find out more about this product? I have had a ROM switcher in my Amiga2000 for a long time that has not worked (due to incompatibilities with other cards).
 

[amiga2000]

So is the flash memory RAM or ROM? If we could use the flash memory as RAM - especially if it could be expanded up to 1GB - I am curious to hear what the write times are, so if someone installs one this weekend, please let me know.

I do some video capturing onto RAM with a Blizzard 2040/PicassoIV, but I only have 128MB -- is it possible that capturing to flash memory on a zorro 2 could be faster? I am more inclined to believe it is not possible for memory access to be any faster than the Amiga 2000's accelerator memory.



 

"Due to the high demand, Kickflash OS4, which has been announced on June 2nd, has been revised. The base version now has 1MB of flash memory, and can be expanded to 1GB on an expansion port. Transfer rates can be compared to normal harddrives, but the common access times of mechanical mass-storage media practically don't exist on flash memory: On random access, so-called solid-state memory is about tenthousand times faster than common harddrives."